George H. Ferguson
Home Town: Newark, DE
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George H. Ferguson, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Romagne, France, October 14, 1918. After being painfully wounded in the leg early in the attack, Lieutenant Fergusen continued forward, leading his platoon through an unusually heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. Later he left a shell hole in which he had taken refuge and administered first aid to soldiers who had fallen near him, until forced to abandon his work because of exhaustion.
